Things I learned at Foster School

No, I didn't attend school at Foster. I'm a Jefferson kid. I'm talking about standing outside Foster School for 13 hours on Election Day.

It is extremely disheartening to see how many haters live in Mt. Lebanon. One man came up to Heather Arnet's volunteer and called Heather a baby killer. He kept yelling about Planned Parenthood and repeated over and over how Heather is a baby killer. Heather is a loving mother of an autistic child and was very upset. Rightfully so. He then came up to me and asked if I support Planned Parenthood. I said, "Hey, I'm just a write-in candidate for commissioner." It was awful.

Then there are the deer haters. I couldn't believe how many voted based on that issue alone. Both Andy and Steve got their votes. People kept screaming, "Kill 'em all!" Later, I said to both Andy and Steve how one of them was going to be my commissioner and that deer are not the most important issue in Mt. Lebanon. We have speeders, pedestrians being hit or killed, kids dying of heroin overdoses, houses flooding, sidewalks and streets in disrepair. I took a lot of ribbing over the deer issue. There was a salt box next to the parking lot at Foster, and one Republican joked and said that is where they put the dead deer.

I learned that 16 deer were pulled out of the Conservation District so far. The hunter there is a moonlighting Scott Township police officer. The only complaint that the neighbor had was that the hunter had gone back one time to clean up the entrails, and the coyotes had already gotten to them.

I saw our solicitor at the Foster School and asked him how the mediation went with Scott Township the day before (Monday.) He said that he couldn't talk about it. I hope that Scott Twp. didn't back down.

Both Andy and Steve are against PAYT and the Newcomers Tax.

I learned that Coleen Vuono is capable of smiling and even laughing. Yes, she was doing both when talking with the Dems.

And this is what is most disturbing. A parent from the Goddard School told me that a couple of weeks ago, the owner of The Goddard School on Painters Run, had come to work to a gruesome discovery in her parking lot. There was a dead deer with an arrow. It was so gory that the fire department had to come and hose off the parking lot at 5:30 AM before the kids got to school. Since that is Upper St. Clair, I'm guessing that it wasn't OUR fire department who cleaned up the bloody scene. The owner is VERY upset and was unaware of the archery program going on so close to the school. These maps were shared with the owner, who then called Keith McGill.

The owners of The Goddard School are very concerned about the sharpshooting set for February. In my post The Goddard School is now open, I have the link to Keith McGill's claim that the owner is satisfied with his response. They are not!

We are living in a community of haters. I am so sad to learn that.

On the Catholic Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals

I heard another botched archery attempt today.

On October 1, 2015 10:00 AM, a dog walker spotted 2 doe and 2 fawns grazing on Pat Haven Drive. One doe had a slice of skin about 12 inches long hanging from her. The deer group eventually moved down toward Robb Hollow. Two men were tracking her, one in a brown uniform  (from Animal Control or White Buffalo?), the other in regular clothes. They followed the deer down to Sandrae. The dog walker then saw a Mt. Lebanon Police SUV drive down Sandrae. Everyone went behind a home in between Sandrae and Clemson. Four shots were fired. The dog walker was told that four shots had to be taken because that is what was needed to take down the doe. OMG.